I’ll be honest with you. Running a small independent newspaper in Siskiyou County is not a glamorous business. The deadlines don’t stop, the phone doesn’t stop, the bills don’t stop — and some weeks, neither does the doubt. Am I covering what matters? Am I being fair? Am I getting it right?
Over time I’ve found that the only antidote to that kind of pressure is stillness. Meditation. Reflection. Sitting with hard questions long enough to hear something useful come back. It’s made me a better publisher, I think, not because it gives me answers, but because it forces me to ask the right questions in the first place.
Here’s one of those questions: Why is one of the worst human rights atrocities on the planet being met with near-total silence by the American mainstream press?
